This article presents the role of local governments in supporting entrepreneurship development. The content of the article presents the factors which foster activities undertaken by local authorities to promote entrepreneurship and also shows different considerations of when the supporting...

Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...

1. Crisis management – From a theoretical point of view -- 2. Crisis management Practices in Small and Medium-sized Firms -- 3. Crisis: A Philosophical Insight -- 4. Managing crisis in SMEs -- 5. Crisis management and leadership: A search for competencies in SMEs -- 6. Crisis management from...

This paper examines the extent to which firms in selected MENA countries reported being constrained by the business environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance. The results suggest that small firms in MENA faced...